# Harnyx Research API

> Harnyx provides asynchronous deep research with citations through its public Research Task API and API-key-authenticated MCP endpoint. Documentation is public; running tasks requires an approved active account, an API key, and credits.

## Documentation

- [Quickstart](https://harnyx.ai/docs/quickstart.md): Create a task with cURL, poll its status, and read output, citations, errors, and credits.
- [Integration guide and agent skill](https://harnyx.ai/skill.md): Python examples, MCP configuration, authentication, structured output, idempotency, citations, and error handling.
- [API reference](https://harnyx.ai/api/research.md): Generated request and response schemas for the public Research Task endpoints.
- [OpenAPI](https://harnyx.ai/api/research.openapi.json): Machine-readable public Research Task contract.

## Human-readable pages

- [Documentation](https://harnyx.ai/docs): Public quickstart and navigation.
- [Integration guide](https://harnyx.ai/docs/integrations): HTML rendering of the agent skill.
- [API reference](https://harnyx.ai/docs/api): HTML rendering of the generated reference.